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Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK. More than 80% of recent arrivals in the republic came via the land border with Northern Ireland, Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week. Rishi Sunak told Sky News it showed the UK’s Rwanda scheme was

Britain plans to equip its armed forces with a homegrown hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the decade, according to a report. Military chiefs are under pressure to catch up with China, Russia and the US by developing a weapon capable of flying at speeds higher than Mach 5 – five times the speed

Four Vietnamese nationals accused of advertising their people smuggling services on Facebook have been arrested in England. Officers arrested a 23-year-old woman in Croydon, south London, a 64-year-old man in Deptford, south London and a 34-year-old man in Leicester on Monday on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration. A 25-year-old man was arrested at the same

A wave of demonstrations have swept the Canary Islands as locals protested against a tourism model they say has plundered the environment, priced them out of housing and forced them into precarious work. The seven main Canary Islands are home to 2.2 million people – and welcomed almost 14 million international visitors in 2023, up

A baby girl rescued from the womb of her dying mother in a Gaza hospital has died, the child’s uncle has said. Sabreen Jouda was born prematurely in Rafah on Sunday shortly after her mother, Sabreen al Sakani, died in an Israeli airstrike, which also killed her father Shoukri, and four-year-old sister Malak. She was

Two courts aren’t enough – not for Donald Trump, not on a Thursday. His hush money criminal trial and Supreme Court hearing, legal events one and two, were already under way when he scored the hat-trick. A New York judge announced he was upholding the verdict and the $83m damages award against Trump for defaming

Dozens of whales have died after several pods washed up on the shore of a beach on the Western Australian coast. Marine wildlife experts including wildlife officers, marine scientists and veterinarians tried frantically to save the pilot whales stranded on Thursday in shallow waters at Toby Inlet in Geographe Bay. Image: The pilot whales became

Deep below Jerusalem, Israeli doctors are preparing for the worst. Sky News has been given exclusive access to an underground hospital where they are expanding capacity in case the current conflict becomes much worse. In a bunker below the Herzog Medical Centre, the number of beds has been increased to 350 – with 100 on

Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people – including a seven-year-old girl – who were attempting to cross the English Channel. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it is supporting the French investigation into the deaths. The men arrested were two Sudanese nationals aged 22 and 19 and one South

Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, a frontier town along the border with Myanmar, is a harrowing window into a civil war that has suddenly escalated. In the searing heat of early morning, the wards are packed full of patients, some with catastrophic injuries. We walk into a room full of amputees, many recently injured

Dramatic footage of a boat chase has been released by Spanish police as officers seized a huge haul of drugs and arrested more than 60 people. Spain’s Guardia Civil has shared footage showing one of its speed boats pursuing a vessel during the operation to tackle drug trafficking. The force said 63 people have been

Rishi Sunak is to announce a £500m military aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russia alongside the UK’s largest provision of munitions so far. Some 400 vehicles, 60 boats, 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, and four million rounds of ammunition are included in the package. The announcement comes during a downswing for

Four Germans have been caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where he was born on the dictator’s birthday. One of the quartet was seen performing a Nazi salute as they posed for photos, according to police. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn in the

Palestinians in Rafah are reeling from a series of devastating Israeli airstrikes that have killed 22 people – including 18 children. The last 48 hours, horrific even by Gaza’s standards, are an indicator of what may follow in any Israeli Rafah offensive. Doctors told the Sky News team in Gaza how they saved the life

Mourners gathered to pay tribute to the six killed in a stabbing at an Australian shopping mall. New South Wales Police identified the man behind the attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction on 13 April as Joel Cauchi, 40. He was shot and killed by an officer after fatally stabbing six people

The impact of this American blockage has been profound.  I have had multiple conversations with diplomats and military officials in Washington DC and all have said the same thing: the situation for Ukraine is depressing, Russia has the upper hand and prospects for Kyiv, without more weapons, are bleak. The Ukrainians have been running low